HelloI am very new to linux and need some help please. Yesterday I installed mint 14 on my compaq laptop as a dual boot with the Vista that was already there. Seemed to work OK except when I boot to mint the wireless adapter does not get turned on. The wireless adapter switch is in the on position but the light stays red (red indicates it is off). When I boot to Vista the adapter light turns blue (for on) and I get wireless connection to the internet. The adapter also works fine when I boot to Partition Magic from a usb flash drive. I can't find anything relevant in the BIOS settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

Below is output of several programs that showed up most often as diagnostics in the topics I have searched thru.

I have this problem every time I install a new distro or upgrade and exiting distro on my old laptop with a Broadcom device. Have to install the B43 drivers. Hard to get a wired connection, but luckily I have a Linksys WUSB 100 USB wireless device which works in Linux out of the box. I plug this in and then I am able to download the necessary packages to get the B43 device working. So if you can't get to a place where you can use a wired connection this is an option.